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    What Co-Writing Judy Heumann’s Memoir Taught Me
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    What Co-Writing Judy Heumann’s Memoir Taught Me

    By: Kristen Joiner “So, you’ve been a feminist and worked in human rights your whole career?” Judy Heumann asked me the first time we met to discuss the possibility of writing her memoir. “Right.” “And you never knew disability was a civil rights issue?” Since I’d already owned up to this, I nodded again. “So,

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    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from John Hendrickson’s <I>Life on Delay</I>
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    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from John Hendrickson’s Life on Delay

    In Life on Delay, Hendrickson offers new insight into a disorder that has for decades been mocked, mischaracterized, and misunderstood. Through a layered and unguarded narrative, he takes the reader inside the intricate family dynamics surrounding his stutter, and he explores the history of stuttering treatment, the current search for a “cure,” and the nature of self-acceptance.

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    A Conversation with Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, authors of <i>Life Worth Living</i>
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    A Conversation with Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, authors of Life Worth Living

    The book is based on your popular class Life Worth Living at Yale. What do you want readers to take away from the book?   Five things stand out to us: We want readers to have a deep conviction that the question of what makes life most worth living matters and confidence that they have

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    The Open Window: Representation Is for You, Too — A Message from Author Sara Nović
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    The Open Window: Representation Is for You, Too — A Message from Author Sara Nović

    Contributed by Sara Nović, author of True Biz: A Novel. Following students at the River Valley School for the Deaf, True Biz is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable,

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    Beacon Author and “Badass” Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann Dies at 75
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    March 6 2023

    Beacon Author and “Badass” Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann Dies at 75

    It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the death of the acclaimed Disability Rights activist and author, Judith Heumann. Ms. Heumann died Saturday, March 4th in Washington DC after a brief hospitalization. She was 75 years old. Long before she became an international leader of the Disability Rights movement, with many of her US

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    March 6 2023
    Videos from the 2023 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available
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    March 3 2023

    Videos from the 2023 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

    We’re pleased to share videos from the 2023 First-Year Experience® Conference. Whether you weren’t able to join us at the conference or would simply like to hear the talks again, please take a moment to view the clips below.   Penguin Random House Saturday Event Friday, February 3, 2023 | 8:00 – 10:00 pm PST

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    Matt Damon on the Conversation That Made Him a Social Entrepreneur
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    Matt Damon on the Conversation That Made Him a Social Entrepreneur

    By: Matt Damon When one of the world’s great social entrepreneurs, Gary White, first told me his solution for ending the global water crisis, I honestly thought it sounded absurd. Our conversation took place back in 2008, at the Clinton Global Initiative. Gary and I were at CGI because we were both, at the time,

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    Tara Westover’s Special Message to Students (<i>Educated</i>, Now Available in Paperback)
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    Tara Westover’s Special Message to Students (Educated, Now Available in Paperback)

    Educated, now available in paperback, is an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. One of the most acclaimed books of our time, it has been taught in classrooms across the country and been selected for common

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    Videos from the November 2022 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available
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    Videos from the November 2022 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

    On Friday, November 11th 2022, Penguin Random House Education hosted a special event for first-year and common reading chairs from colleges and universities from across the country. Moderated by Spenser Stevens, PRH Education Marketing Manager, the event featured the following PRH authors speaking about their books:   David McRaney, author of How Minds Change Carmen Rita

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    Adam Benforado on Youth Rights and the Path to a Better Future
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    Adam Benforado on Youth Rights and the Path to a Better Future

    Contributed by Adam Benforado, author of A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All. Drawing on the latest research on the value of early intervention, investment, and empowerment, A Minor Revolution makes the urgent case for putting children first—in our budgets and policies, in how we develop products and enact laws, and in our

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    Adam Benforado on Youth Rights and the Path to a Better Future

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    Princeton Pre-read book <i>Every Day the River Changes</i> inspires Class of 2026 to pursue their passions
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    Princeton Pre-read book Every Day the River Changes inspires Class of 2026 to pursue their passions

    Over the summer, 1,500 Princeton first-years read alumnus Jordan Salama’s celebrated travelogue, Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena. Salama, a Class of 2019 graduate, spoke in conversation with President Christopher L. Eisgruber, who wrote the following introduction for the custom edition of the book: Dear Members of the GREAT Class of

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